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"Up Where We Belong" is a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings that was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Warnes was recommended to sing a song from the film because of her previous soundtrack successes, and she had the idea for the song to be a duet that she ...
An Officer and a Gentleman was an enormous box office success and went on to become the third-highest-grossing film of 1982, after E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and Tootsie . [ 26 ] It grossed $3,304,679 in its opening weekend [ 27 ] and $130 million dollars overall at the US and Canadian box office. [ 28 ]
In 2019, a North American tour of An Officer and a Gentleman was announced, with a book adapted by Dick Scanlan, based on the version by Douglas Day Stewart and Sharleen Cooper Cohen. [5] Choreography for this version was by Patricia Wilcox. [6] In 2024, the Curve production of the musical returned to the UK, again directed by Nikolai Foster.
Warnes teamed up with Joe Cocker to record "Up Where We Belong" for the 1982 motion picture An Officer and a Gentleman. [4] Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Will Jennings and Jack Nitzsche, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, [4] as well as a Golden Globe Award.
Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and an Emmy for 'Roots.' The 87-year-old actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica.
It’s just there. And in 1982, the nuance of it felt revolutionary. “An Officer and a Gentleman” isn’t a liberal message movie — it’s a karmic military showdown (and, of course, a romance).
It’s been more than 40 years since “An Officer and a Gentleman” became a surprise box office smash, but from time to time, star Richard Gere still gets called out about the classic military ...
Mariah Carey co-wrote the songs that she worked with Warren on. Warren wrote "I Was Here" (inspired by the September 11 attacks) for Beyoncé. Warren has written ten songs for LeAnn Rimes, including her hits "How Do I Live" and "Can't Fight the Moonlight". Michael Bolton has recorded twenty four songs that were written by Warren.